Thomas A. Hendricks

Thomas Andrews Hendricks (7 September 1819-25 November 1885) was Vice President of the United States from 4 March to 25 November 1885, succeeding Chester A. Arthur and preceding Levi P. Morton. He previously served as a member of the US House of Representatives (D-IN 5) from 4 March 1851 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding William J. Brown and preceding Samuel W. Parker) and from IN-6 from 4 March 1853 to 3 March 1855 (succeeding Willis A. Gorman and preceding Lucien Barbour), a US Senator from 4 March 1863 to 3 March 1869 (succeeding David Turpie and preceding Daniel D. Pratt), and Governor from 13 January 1873 to 8 January 1877 (succeeding Conrad Baker and preceding James D. Williams).

Biography
Thomas Andrews Hendricks was born in Fultonham, Ohio in 1819, and he moved to Indiana with his parents a year later. He became a lawyer in 1843 and moved to Indianapolis in 1860, establishing a private law practice there in 1862. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855, the US Senate from 1863 to 1869, and as Governor from 1873 to 1877, and he had to deal with a strong Republican majority in the General Assembly, the economic panic of 1873, and an economic depression. In 1876, he was his party's vice-presidential nominee under Samuel Tilden, and, while they won the popular vote, they lost the electoral vote to the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. Despite his poor health, he once again served as a running mate, this time for Grover Cleveland in 1884, and he died eight months into his service.